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Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
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Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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